TECHNICAL LIBRARY

CELEBRITY CAD on Linux

Trends in the industry show that designers
are using more and more Linux-based hardware and software for day-to-day
applications due to nature of Linux functionality and availability.
Linux is often considered an excellent, low-cost alternative to
other more expensive operating systems. Linux supports IBM PC Architecture,
Digital Alpha workstations, Sun Sparc processors, Motorola 680x0
based processors. There are a lot of Linux projects to support many
others machines and architectures.

Expert originally designed
for Windows platform was ported to the Linux using the Mainsoft’s
Visual MainWin application porting software (www.mainsoft.com).
The new Linux version of Expert met at least the same
performance and reliability standards as their established Windows
solution. Figures 1 and 2 show two different flavors of Expert’s
user interface on Linux.

Figure1. Expert UI: Microsoft
Windows Flavor

Figure 2. Expert UI: OS/Motif
Flavor

Expert is a powerful
IC layout editor for Win NT platform. Expert is fast, robust, interactive,
fully hierarchical and very easy to use. Key Features and Benefits
of Expert:

The core DRC engine of Savage
is ported to Linux directly, while its user interface is shared
with Expert. As an additional benefit of the latest
release of Savage is its parallel execution on multiprocessor
computers, described in a separate article of this issue of "Simulation
Standard".